I'm inclined towards this as well, which is why I thought that maybe she was contacted by the Eye personally. But it does make more sense that it was the 3rd and 4th that let her in on the plan instead. It's also pretty likely that this was a recent change in the plans, otherwise Syla would know about it (or at least her obliviousness was part of the plan).
I didn't say Ella's close to the big three's power level... idk where you got that. Only that, as she's the third's chosen despite being an artificial level five, the vessel thing might not be reserved to natural level fives.
Well you said: " In fact, the natural level 5 might be more similar to a serum level 5 than the big three" but that is a completely nonsensical statement because the big three are the ONLY ones who achieved a natural 5th evolution...you can't separate the two...a natural 5th evolution cannot be anything like a serum 5th evolution. We are even told that there are extreme dangers to attempting a natural 5th evolution...which most likely has to do with controlling or bonding with whatever entity like the big 3 did, which is where their extreme power comes from.
What I was saying is that a normal natural level 5 might be very different to what the big three are. If a natural level 5 is to be claimed by an apostle, it makes no sense that they'd separate from them, or whatever actually happens.
Well we only know the patron would try to claim a superhuman that reaches a natural 5th evolution...but that might be the danger of it and why there are only 3 who survived it. We were warned that attempting is dangerous. But serum 5th evolutions are probably not true evolutions or at least not good enough for the monster patrons as serum 5ths are safe...monsters don't care about them. Which likely has to do with serum 5th evolutions being far weaker than natural 5ths.
Truth is just controlling things, so that's simple. Each of them controls a certain aspect, being fire and air.
You get that regardless when you reach a certain point, Ella's power went from changing shape as a power to changing as an idea, in a straight power match she should have been fried instantly by Malak so she instead makes herself unchangeable, a thematic use of changing.
Your comment makes a point about how they may have fantasy and truth for it, I'm just clarifying that they where never needed at all for that.
Most likely, the basis for all the true evolutions seem to be being at the top of your current evolution and being pushed further in some way, either through trauma, pushing your powers, fighting the influence of monster blood, or simply surviving. The MC didn't simply get blood and evolve, he had to struggle against it.
No. It was triggered by a sort of serum made of monster blood that monster Deryl had intended to use on himself. But lower level evolutions aren't really the important ones...only the 5th is the one that is a make or break thing...the 5th is the one that is important to be natural as we see a vast power difference between the big 3 who achieved natural 5th evolutions and the serum induced 5ths. The 5th is also hugely important because a superhuman can no longer evolve after that so inducing the 5th via serum makes achieving it naturally impossible...but natural 5ths are incredibly dangerous for reasons that we don't know yet but most likely relates to controlling or binding to some other entity as the big 3 appear to be, and those entities are likely the sources of their vastly higher powers too.
The story does take place on Earth, just not our Earth. If you were a dinosaur/palenontolgy nerd as a kid like me, you would take note that the 2 continents making up the SH world are called Laurasia and Gondwana, which at one point in time were actual continents on our earth tracing back some 800 million years that collided to create Pangaea before fragmenting again and having Laurasia itself split off from Gondwana about 175 million years ago which means that Superhuman could possibly take place in between the Late Triassic period and the Late Cretaceous period.
I believe that in addition to improving his skills through training and gathering useful information to improve his body and powers, the MC must focus on the plan that Bramon Xanthe had to improve his body, the MC needs to collect compatible organs and thus replace his organs with those of monsters, if I'm not mistaken the MC already has the heart and lungs of his body changed to those of a monster and this has already greatly improved his power.
That, and just working on improving his own biology in general. Stuff like making his muscles denser, able to contract faster, make the body better structured, remove dependencies like blood, food, and air, improving the material his cells are made of, and many, many more things.
I'm a few updates behind and haven't gotten to the content of this new update yet, but what do you mean by Amber somehow having a crush on Micheal? Is this something from the NTR route?
Because if it is, it will be a relief, I ran away from that damn NTR route precisely to avoid seeing this type of situation.
